@troi It dates back to the original - he was introduced as a new character in the Star wars holiday special, intitially seeming to be a good guy and then turning bad. Then he was revealed as a mail-away figure with the promise that his backpack fired a missile, and he'd be a big character in the Star Wars sequel. The backpack didn't fire in the end for various safety reasons, but we had about a year to wonder if that thing on his back was really a jetpack or not, and what role he'd play. Then he turned out to be the guy in possession of Han, and we had to wait three years to find out how that resolved.

So there was a ton of mystique surrounding him back then, and those of us who grew up with it remember that. In hindsight, yeah, he dies like a dork. But that hadn't happened yet.

@troi I only mildy disagree. In EMPIRE, Boba Fett was decently badass. He susssed out Solo's garbage dump ruse, followed the Falcon undetected, (a ship which featured a big giant radar dish on top) and casually walked away with the frozen Han-sickle.

@Gallen_Dugall but this is May 3rd. And as snarky people around the world like to keep reminding us, the USAlund? is practically the only country where we format dates MM/DD/YY. Fourth of May be with you doesn't seem to have the same ring to it.

@Gallen_Dugall@James.k.Polk@PCabezuelo@FakeAssName@LYT I can understand that. Believe me I have no great love for Disney. What I don't understand is this belief that Lucas treated his property with respect and wouldn't licence them for a quick buck - because that is so not true. Remember the Star Wars edition of Deal or No Deal?

@James.k.Polk@PCabezuelo@FakeAssName@LYT most of the malice is the result of their canceling projects and shutting down divisions at the company they just bought making it look much more like they mainly wanted the special effects department

@PCabezuelo@FakeAssName@LYT a voice of reason. I simply don't understand the malice towards Disney. They seem to have done a decent job with Marvel. Pixar works fine, even if they are cranking out more sequels than everybody likes, but Lucasfilm had to be a whoreish cash grab.